Imagine keeping your only copies of files on google drive of all things… do people not know how to do proper backups?
No, they really don’t.
I was affected!! It’s so strange, first time something like this happened to me, it’s like I won a local lottery or something, don’t know what to feel now.
All my newer files are still there, but the older ones and all bin, zip, tar and 7zip are not there anymore.
So glad I started the homelab / self-hosted thing a few weeks ago, I have copies of everything locally on multiple storages.
As the stickied post said, we shouldn’t rely on cloud storage because X, Y, and Z but good god the whole point of these companies buying out missile silos, building in tons of redundancy, etc. was to prevent this shit. Google’s billions are no better than my $500 NAS, it would appear.
Good reminder to back mine up.
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It was only a matter of time considering how these companies consider consumers necessary pests and put the least possible effort in their services that are consumer facing.
What’s really scary is that even if it’s just a fraction of a percent, it’s still tens or hundreds of TB of what’s stored there. *SHUDDER*
Really interested when we, hopefully, read the press statement from them regarding how much data was lost, even temporarily!
